Market Report Streams Across Livestock and Grains
Chicago and Omaha livestock trade shows hogs steady to 50c higher while cattle ease up to 50c. Receipts from hogs cows and calves noted with top prices reaching 26.75 for hogs and 40.50 for select cattle. Sioux City and Cedar Rapids markets report mixed gains and declines. Grain quotations and fruit vegetables prices listed, including corn, onions, and potatoes.
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Chicago
USDA
Omaha
Fred
Cedar Rapids
Steels Reach 1948 Crests Steels News
New York AP reports steel shares climbed to 1948 highs amid a broadly higher market with gains from fractions to a point or more and about 1,200,000 shares traded. Bond market steadied with selective gains in issues from Pennsylvania Central to Pennsylvanian General while Missouri Pacific loans lagged. Kansas City livestock receipts totaled 6,500 with steer prices around 29.25 to 32.75 and various cattle categories showing mixed to weak demand.
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Siolx City Livestock
Sioux City
Heifer Eatons
New York
NEW York Bond Review
Pennsylvania Central Air Line
Metropolitan Edison
New England Telephone
Norfolk Southern Ds
Pennsylvani General
Missouri Pacific
Soybeans Rise on Export News in Mixed Grain Market
Chicago soybeans advanced about five cents amid active trade after export allocation announcements. Wheat and oats showed strength with milling demand and cash oats sales. Corn held firm, lard stayed buoyant, and prices for soybeans, corn, and wheat moved within fractional gains. Des Moines receipts and regional shipping activity accompanied the day’s market tone.
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Chicago
Oais J
Glass-Chewing Dog Escapes in Car Heat
In Omaha, a nine year old terrier owned by Edward Sadler of Manor Pennsylvania chewed glass after the car overheated while Sadler ate lunch. The dog broke the rear window, crawled out and hid beneath the vehicle to cool, as bystanders noticed the bleeding and called a veterinarian.
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Omaha
Edward Sadler
Manor
Sadler
Chicago Produce Market Receipts Steady Across Items
Chicago and New York markets report steady poultry butter eggs cheese and produce supplies. Plymouth Rock fryers and BRaters 35c, cheeses around 55-58c, butter receipts about 540,616 lbs with market firm at various grades, potatoes arrivals 146 on track 394, total 1,117 steady with Idaho russets and other regional lots priced per 100 pounds. New York butter indexes show lower to slightly higher, eggs with mixed changes, cheese receipts around 60,568 and prices unchanged.
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Chicago
Plymouth Rock
Idaho Russets US
New York
INS
Sewing Pattern Ad Sparks Weekend Craft Party
A fast paced home craft notice by Anne Adams promotes Pattern 4979 for a hostess style lapron with ruffle bows. It offers small medium and large sizes, lists fabric bale guidance, and instructs readers to send 25 cents to The Cedar Rapids Gazette Pattern Dept. in Chicago for the pattern with name address size and style number.
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Anne Adams
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Pattern Dept
Clinton St
Chicago
Ill
Brownell Accuses Admin of Pressuring Civil Servants
Republican Campaign Manager Herbert Brownell Jr said the administration is trying to sway civil service employees in Washington to fund the faltering Democratic campaign. He released copies of a letter from Aaron L. Ford urging “liberal contributions” and requesting large checks not exceeding the $5,000 legal limit, calling it a veiled threat of reprisals.
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Washington
LLP
Herbert Brownell, Jr
Civil Service
Aaron L. Ford
Democratic Radio Time Committee
Brownell
Blondie Creator To Get Cartoonist Award
New York news confirms Chic Young, creator of Blondie, will be honored as outstanding cartoonist of the year with a Silver Lady statuette by the Banshees. The award event takes place at a luncheon on November 4, following last year's inaugural presentation to Walt Disney.
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New York
INS
Banshees
Chic Young
Young
Willy Pogany
Walt Disney
Young Jury Penalties for Vandalism in Covington
A juvenile jury backed by Police Judge Ernest Mershon Jr. recommended four teenagers apologize and remain confined to home after 8 p.m. from October 25 to 31. The judge said parents should enforce the time limits. The case involved pre Halloween vandalism with kicked garbage cans and broken windows. The judge plans to continue juvenile juries for misdemeanors while more serious offenders go to county officials.
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Covington, Ky
Ernest Mershon, Jr
Mershon
D.A. s Car Too Hot for Auto Thief in Kenosha
Kenosha Wisconsin district attorney Urban Zeivers may not win re election but believes his campaign posters helped. His car was stolen from his driveway and found an hour later about two miles away abandoned with his election posters still in the front seat. He thinks the thief chose the wrong car.
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Kenosha
Wis
Urban Zeivers
Zeivers
Dinner honors twins and church ties in Marion cafe
Marion residents gathered at the K V cafe Sunday to celebrate the christening of twins Joseph and Joanne Cira. About 25 relatives attended with guests from Pueblo Colorado Iowa City and Cedar Rapids. Wedding and social notices span friends visiting relatives selling homes and club meetings across Marion and nearby towns.
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Cira
Joe Cira
Seventh Avenue
K. V
Joseph
Joanne
Fred Fensterman
Stanley
Michael Cha, Jr
Pueblo
Cole
Gus Pusateri
Iowa City
Joe Pusateri
Cedar Rapids
Ball Pleads for Tomato-Tosser in Minnesota
ALBERT LEA Minn INS Senator Ball intervened for a farm youth aged 16 who threw a tomato at him last week and hit Mrs. Dewey. The boy was to appear before Judge Norris Peterson in juvenile court after his father punished him. Ball urged charges to be dropped or leniency from the court.
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Albert Lea
Minn
INS
Senator Ball
R-Minn
Thomas E. Dewey
Norris Peterson
Ball
Carl Lidahl
Widow of Heydrich Sentenced in Absentia in Prague
Frau Reinhard Heydrich, 37, was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment by a Prague court. The widow of Hitler's associate was charged with torturing Jewish slave laborers who served under her late husband in Bohemia and Moravia. She reportedly lives in the British zone of Germany.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Reinhard Heydrich
Hitler
Bohemia and Moravia
Germany
Heydrich
Marion Man Hurt in Truck-Car Collision
William Rossey of Marion suffered a possible fractured leg when the truck he drove collided with a car on the Alburnett road near Marion. He was taken to St Luke's hospital in fairly good condition. Donald Jones of Alburnett, driver of the other vehicle, escaped injury.
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Marion
William Rossey
Alburnett Road
St. Luke’s Hospital
Donald Jones
Alburnett
City Briefs Courteous taxi service and events
City notices list a taxi ad for City Cab and several brief items. Creighton University law freshmen elect Thomas P. Shanahan as vice-president. Apollo Commandery meets Friday at the Masonic temple with dinner at 6:15 pm and uniformed knights advised. Cedar Rapids residents attend a tri state Wholesale Credit Association meeting in Des Moines. A Chamber Purchasing Agents dinner dance is planned at Club Ced-Rel next Wednesday. Dr B J Radford announces a new podiatry office. Johnson family visitors: Keith Johnson returns from Dubuque. Kenneth M Johnson on a 10 day leave, recently promoted at Great Lakes electronics school, to report in San Diego Oct 27.
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Apollo Commandery
Masonic Temple
Order of the Temple
Elmer Hedin
Cedar Rapids
Tri-State Wholesale Credit Association
Des Moines
David Pugh
Milo Hanzlik
Glen Mobry
Nelle Crawford
Agnes Powers
al Hoppe
Walter Grady
Joe Rust
Amanda Hagenstein
Louise Safely
Johnson
Keith Johnson
Elizabeth Johnson
F Avenue NW
Dubuque
Kenneth M. Johnson
Great Lakes
Ill
San Diego
Labor Political Outlay Tops Two Million in Campaign
A survey shows organized labor has raised and spent about 2 million dollars so far in the campaign, a record for union political activity. The AFL political league expects over 1 million by campaign end, CIO PAC hints expenditures may exceed 500 thousand, Massachusetts unions report over 200 thousand raised, and several other national labor groups aim to spend at least 500 thousand to oppose Taft-Hartley era measures. John L. Lewis United Mine Workers, railroad brotherhoods, and the International Association of Machinists are among those funding efforts.
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Washington (Lp
Organized Labor
AFL Political League
League
Benta
CIO Political Action Committee
Congress
Massachusetts
AFL
CIO
National
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers, Railroad Brotherhoods
International Association of Machinists
World population estimate noted and debated
The statement references a figure near two and a quarter billion people globally, signaling discussion of population estimates and their variability across sources. It highlights the challenge of precise counting in a large, dynamic world.
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East Flat Rock
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Storm's Dime Store
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Manchester
Independence
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Dixon, Ill
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Minneapolis
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Frank J. Cleveland
Long Beach
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Robert T. Hibner
Washington, D. C
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Anamosa
Woman’s Society of Christian Service
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Charles Sweet
Frank Clark
Owen Turner
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E. E. Godwin
M. H. Riddick
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Bishop’s Mantle
Agnes Turnbull
Marion Community Chest
Coca-Cola Company
Coca-Cola
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Dial
City Cab
Thomas P. Shanahan
W. J. Shanahan
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Creighton University School of Law
Shanahan
St. Patrick's High School
Gillette
Z.C.B.J. Hall
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